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From funding applications to academic writing, social media posts to workshop descriptions - is it challenging to find the right words? Are you looking to connect with your audience, or write a crucial funding application? Then this workshop is for you! Join us to explore the ways in which you can improve your writing skills. 

This workshop, designed for dance artists, dance teachers, and various arts practitioners offers participants tools to confidently express their practice. This workshop will guide you in ways that enhance credibility, open up new opportunities, and enable you to continue to developing your way with words.

It will start with exploring your journey so far and your connection to your work in dance. You will then research writing formats via the internet and apply your findings to drafting a piece of writing of choice; it could be a social media post, a dance workshop description or short article. The day will end with a creative, word-based practical studio session exploring the relationship between movement and words.

By attending this workshop, you will learn:

• The importance of being able to narrate your dance experiences and journey
• The importance of researching writing formats
• How to draft a piece writing that of importance to you; be it a description for your dance class, a social media post or a blog
• How to cultivate a writing habit
• To explore creatively the relationship between movement and words.

This workshop is ideal for artists at any stage in their career looking for inspiration in their writing, and ways to improve how they communicate about their work.

About Dr. Funmi Adewole Elliott

Funmi is a performer, dramaturge and academic. As part of her portfolio career, she has worked as an arts journalist, dance historian and facilitator. She has an MA in Postcolonial Studies, a Professional Certificate in Education and a PhD in Dance Studies.

She taught at De Montfort University in the dance department for 8 years and was for two years, a member of the curatorial team for the MA Dance: Participation, Communities and Activism at the London Contemporary Dance School.

She has led and contributed to the professional development programmes of several international dance and arts organisations such as Ecole Des Sables, Senegal, Pan-African Creative Exchange, South Africa/Nigeria/UK and Dance Immersion, Canada.

She produces her own performance work and arts projects under the banners of FAE Studios/Enact Arts CIC. She has a passion for storytelling and movement based theatre.

Image credit: Funmi Adewole Elliott. Photo: Pete Martin.